Amazon Mobile and Fhotoroom for Windows Phone both updated

The start of the year has already seen a slew of updates for apps and now we’re seeing yet more updates arrive for Windows Phone. This time it’s the turn of Fhotoroom, the popular social networking and photo editing app and Amazon Mobile to get bumped.

Fhotoroom, in case you aren’t familiar with the app and service has this to offer:

“Our Pro Camera is focused on achieving the absolutely best results that your camera can produce. Utilizing technology like our custom EV (Auto Exposure), Grid and Level all come together to extend the ability of your camera. Our photo sharing network allows uses to show off their photos with our very fast growing community of winographers. You can also share your beautiful photos with skydrive, flickr, facebook, twitter or tumblr all at once with a single click. Making beautiful photos in Fhotoroom is easier than ever.”

New Stats page to show your rating.

Swipe Left/Right to scroll through filters

Updated Camera Pinch to Zoom

Fixed Back Button Issue

Several UI tweaks

General Minor Bug Fixes

Unfortunately details of both of these updates are hard to come by, in the case of Fhotoroom it refers to things added from the previous version. The latest version takes it to 2.4 so we’re going to have to put this one down to some bug fixes and such.

Amazon Mobile also gets a small bump but again details are thin on the ground. As this isn’t even a real version bump again we’ll have to assume it’s just limited to bug fixes too. Here is what they have to say about the app:

What’s New in 2.0

"The Amazon Mobile App allows Windows Phone users to quickly search, compare prices, read reviews, share products with friends, access Gold Box Deals, and make purchases on Amazon using a simple, yet elegant, interface. To make on-the-go shopping and price comparison even easier, the Amazon Mobile App includes helpful shopping features that allow users to scan a barcode or type a search to quickly compare prices and check availability. Users may also save time by pinning the Amazon barcode scan tile to their Start screen, enabling them to simply tap the tile to take them straight to the barcode scanner. Both the apps are available to download and update from the Windows Phone Store"

Both the apps are available to download and update from the Windows Phone Store

I noticed Fhotoroom also took off tumblr support on their front page and in their networks that they connect to on their site. That sucks. Unless they're really working hard and really working on that fix and don't want to say something that they currently have trouble connecting to.

i'd like to use fhotoroom but whenever i sign into my facebook and you have to click install to go any further, it does nothing. i just keep clicking install and the page goes nowhere. kind of sucks. tried uninstalling and reinstalling and still the same thing. oh well.

The fhotoroom to tumblr issue is directly related to the new tumblr API and with little support from them other than directing to twitter API is really sad state of affairs. We have put a pin on this so that we can streamline better support for facebook and twitter with no real issues with flickr.
At present the tumblr method is broken and we had hoped to have it resolved for our last update but that did not happen. We have authentication and multi blogging support working but not posting. So we have made great progress but the most important part is still missing, posting! We removed the tumblr icon to be honest with what we presently support until we can resolve this issue but not until we get our working services operating at a higher level. We do apologize for this.
Lastly our WP8 factor. WP8 has so many amazing features for us to take advantage of not to mention for our type of app the OS change was a bit bigger. So we can say the WP8 version will be available in the next few weeks and the wait will be worth it with an updated UI to boot.